A FURIOUS Italian MEP has branded the European Union (EU) a failed "oligarchy" and blamed its undemocratic nature for driving Britain out of the exit door.

In a scathing outburst Barbara Spinelli said Europe is facing the terrifying prospect of a rerun of the 1930s and the rise of fascism because of the intransigence of Jean-Claude Juncker's EU Commission.

She called for a complete overhaul of the entire project to iron out its "ruinous deficiencies", saying the unaccountability of decision making has made Brussels unsustainably unpopular.

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The influential MEP's stinging attack is just the latest salvo between competing visions for the EU's future, with politicians locked in a battle to determine its direction post-Brexit.

There have been calls in eastern and northern Europe for a return to a looser form of trading alliance in light of Britain's decision to leave, stripping the meddling EU Commission of a large amount of its power.

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She railed against the 'oligarchy' of Jean-Claude Juncker's EU Commission

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The Italian politician blamed the EU's undemocratic nature for the Brexit vote

But the foreign ministers of France and Germany have put forward a competing vision for total federalism and the creation of a United States of Europe, saying that is the only way to solve the continent's economic and political crisis.

In an interview Mrs Spinelli said Brussels has reached a "tipping point" and argued, as many other European politicians have, meddling through with the status quo is not an option.

And in a stinging attack she accused Mr Juncker's army of bureaucrats of deliberately muddying the waters with reams of legislation in an attempt to keep things as they are.

We have to admit democracy as a whole is left with broken bones

Italian MEP Barbara Spinelli

She said: "We have arrived at a tipping point in the EU where the obsessive insistence on the institutional method is not only insufficient.

"It is a technical masking of a political substance that does not change, of a European project that does not want to become neither political nor democratic, but deliberately tends to be a programme of oligarchic domination."

Calling for far greater political involvement from citizens of the EU - including a US-style constitution for the 28-member bloc - she said only "permanent scrutiny" will stop eurocrats from "behaving as an oligarchy".

And she blasted: "We have to admit democracy as a whole is left with broken bones.

"I am convinced of the influence of the Greek events over Brexit, a vote that has been claimed by a large number of people who said to themselves…what Athens has not been able to reach - the restoration of popular sovereignty - we, as a stronger and older state, have the power and strategic weight to achieve it."

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Mrs Spinelli, a leading member of the Confederal Group of the European United Left at the European Parliament, also insisted it was useless denying how unpopular the EU has become with many citizens.

She highlighted in particular the perception that Brussels represents the interests of "small power cliques and privileged groups" rather than the hundreds of millions of people across Europe struggling to get by.

And she said the euro elite can no longer ignore and dismiss the rise of eurosceptic, anti-immigrant parties post-Brexit, saying the EU needs to act to ensure its future.

She said: "Such denial of reality is also one of our ruinous deficiencies. The reality doesn’t disappear just because we call it 'populist'.

"We have to start again from here, from this irruption of the reality principle, if we want to avoid the remake of the 1930s."

Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.

The Goals of Communism

(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.